Haiti: Books For Sale

List as of January 30, 2008

Bob Corbett 1419 Tamm Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63139
(314) 647-6704

The list adds and subtracts items constantly, so please write to reserve books or to check is they are still available. The most current list is the one on my web site.

If you have questions, don't hesitate to contact me

BOOKS READY FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY.

Shipping is $3.00 for the first book and $.50 for each additional book, book rate. There will also be a 75 cent charge for each mailing for delivery confirmation. Insurance or priority shipping are extra, please ask. Delivery outside the U.S. will be arranged. A number of the art cooks are quite heavy and can't be shipped for the $3.00 normal fee. If books are heavy I will have to charge extra shipping.

• Abbott, Elizabeth. HAITI: AN INSIDER'S HISTORY OF THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DUVALIERS. Paper, new. First author I've read who makFe the argument that Haiti's main economy under the Duvaliers was misery itself.
  • Hard bound copy in dust jacket $20.00
  • Also have a paper bound like new. $12.00

• Alexander, Will    ASIA & HAITI: NEW AMERICAN POETRY SERIES 17     Very long poem on Haiti. Paperbound. Excellent condition.
  • $12.00

• Alexis, Jacques Stephen     IN THE FLICKER OF AN EYELID     Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2002. Click on the title to read my long and glowing review of this wonderful novel.
  • $21.00

• Anderson, Mildred. BEYOND ALL THIS: THIRTY YEARS WITH THE MOUNTAIN PEASANTS OF HAITI. 1979 missionary account of work at the Baptist Mission. Paper bound in good condition
  • $18.00.

•    ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE NAVY DEPARTMENT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1920     Wash, DC: Government Printing Office, 1921. There is 92 page report on Haiti, pages 222-320, followed by a long section on the Dominican Republic. This 1921 book is very heavy and will require $5.00 postage if sent media mail, more if priority. The book is hard bound and in excellent condition.
  • $89.00

• Apollon, Marlene Rigaud    I WANT TO DANCE     Poems from a woman who fled Haiti in 1964. Like new paperbound.
  • $10.00

• Aristide, Jean-Betrand. IN THE PARISH OF THE POOR.. 1994. Aristide's liberation theology work, where he raises the image of the poor sitting under the table of the rich, eating the crumbs from their table, but about to rise up and tip over this table.
  • Like new: $20.00

• Aristide, Jean-Betrand. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.. 1993. New hardbound book in dust jacket. Life of the president-in-exile. Excellent book. Like new.
  • Like new: $7.00

• Barton, Paule    THE WOE SHIRT: CARIBBEAN FOLK TALES    Lincoln: Penmaen Press, 1980, first edition. Beautiful hardbound book in original dust jacket. Translated to English by Howard A. Norman. Stories from the Caribbean, includes Haiti. Drawings accompany stories.
  • $40.00

• Bar-Zohar, Michael    THE SPY WHO DIED TWICE    Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975. Spy novel. "... to discover the mastermind behind the cover-ups of an infamous K.G.B. plot, Saunders embarks on a desperate mission. Taking him to Haiti, Spain, England and Austria..." Book is hard bound in original dust jacket. Fine condition.
  • Hardbound in good condition. $7.00.
  • Second copy that is early, but not first edition $16.00

• Beebe, William.     BENEATH TROPIC SEAS.     1928 first edition of this extraordinary 234 paged treatment of diving the reefs along Haiti's coasts.
  • Hardbound in good condition. $18.00.
  • Second copy that is early, but not first edition $16.00

• Bishop, Crawford and Anyda Marchant    A GUIDE TO THE LAW AND LEGAL LITERATURE OF CUBA, THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND HAITI     Washington, DC: The Library of Congress, 1944. Special section on Haiti of this large sized book is pages 203-270.
  • $50.00

• Bohnen, Father Lawrence    HAITI: ONE HUNDRED FORTY "MINI-SCHOOLS" 1987 booklet from Fr. Bohnen on his small schools where students were attracted to school in part by having a hot lunch program   
  • Paper bound $15.00

• Bordes, Ary and Andrea Couture    FOR THE PEOPLE FOR A CHANGE: BRINGING HEALTH TO THE FAMILIES OF HAITI    This 1978 analysis was one of the first books on Haiti I read way back in the early 1980s. I was very moved by the clinic they ran and the story told. Hardbound book in original dust jacket.
  • $25.00

• Brenton, Francis    LONG SAIL TO HAITI     London: Heinemann, 1965. Hardbound in very nice condition. First edition, no dust jacket.
  • $35.00

• Buch, Hans Christoph    THE WEDDING AT PORT-AU-PRINCE: A NOVEL    Three different marriages like a family together. Hardbound book in good condition in original dust jacket. Published in 1984.
  • $17.00

• Buissereth, Joel and Arlen Miller    THE PATH OF FAITH: ONE HAITIAN'S JOURNEY     Sugarcreek, Ohio: Palm Tree Press, 2001. True story. Paperbound book in near-new condition.
  • $12.00

• Bush, Barbara    SLAVE WOMEN IN CARIBBEAN SOCIETY     Kingston, Jamaica: Heinemann Publishers, 1990. Fascinating essays dealing with topics such an "invisible" slave women, their role in family, work, religion, resistance and the run-away woman slave and more. Hardbound book is in excellent condition.
  • $28.00

• Carpentier, Alejo    THE KINGDOM OF THE WORLD     Wonderful novel of the Haitian Revolution by this famous writer.
  • Limited Editions Club, 1987. Binding is Half-Leather. Book Condition: Good. Illustrated by Juarez, Roberto. (illustrator). Limited. Good. in No Jacket dj. no slipcase/ one of 750 copies, spine is leather, and edges of boards are leather. Illustrated by Juarez, Roberto. Limited. Like new with the exception of a slight musty smell when taken out of the slip case box. $212.00
  • Paper bound like new. $12.00

• Cave, Hugh. CROSS ON THE DRUM. Hard bound, 1959. Perhaps the best American novel on Haitian Voodoo which I know. Set on the island of La Torture, it concerns a Protestant missionary and a Voodoo houngan who come to understand one another and one another's religions.
  • Copy without dustjacket: $17.50
  • Copy with dustjacket: $22.00

• Cave, Hugh. HAITI: HIGHROAD TO ADVENTURE. Hard bound, 1952. One of the best overviews of Haiti ever written. Cave lived in Haiti for a few years and visited many important centers of Haiti. He writes with understanding, depth and respect.
  • Hard bound first edition in good condition in the original dust jacket: $45.00
  • Another nice copy with dust jacket, not stated first edition $42.00
  • Hard bound but no dust jacket. $39.00

• Cave, Hugh. THE MISSION. Hard bound in dust jacket. Very touching and beautiful story of a little girl seeking her artist father in Port-au-Prince. Inspired by a real story told to Hugh Cave by Sister Joan Margaret of Ecole St. Vincent in the 1950s. First published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1959.
  • Hard bound with jacket, very nice condition: $45.00
  • Hard bound with jacket, but a tear of about 1/2 dollar size on the dust jacket: $37.00
  • Original publication of the story in The Saturday Evening Post, 1959. Have the whole magazine with famous picture of the girl. Post received enoumous amount of mail about that illustration -- from a letter from Hugh Cave. $48.00
  • Reader's Digest copy of the story in the full bound volume of Reader's Digest. $25.00

• Chapeau, Ellen Chazal    UNDER THE DEARKNESS OF THE NIGHT; HISTORICAL ROMANCE     Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1901. Novel set in colonial Ste. Domingue. Book is hardbound and in very nice condition.
  • $35.00

• Chester, Rear Admiral Colby M. HAITI: A DEGENERATING ISLAND. A very scarce item. From National Geographic, March 1908, the very first Nation Geographic edition to feature a story on Haiti. Some nice photos from Cap Haitien. Excellent condition for 1908!
  • $50.00.

• Clausner, Marlin D.    RURAL SANTO DOMINGO: SETTLED, UNSETTLED AND RESETTLED     Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1973. A history of the island from the point of view of land settlement and usage in the DR with some material on Haiti as well. Like new hard bound copy.
  • 10.00

• Clitandre, Pierre    CATHEDRAL OF THE AUGUST HEAT    Reader's International,, New York:, 1982. Novel of history, symbols and beliefs by this Haitian author, of the great uprising in 1791 which made Haiti the world's first independent black republic. Hard bound in original dust jacket in very fine condition.
  • $12.00

•    CONJONCTION -- JANUARY, 1994.    Published in Haiti in French. Revue Franco-Haitienne. Articles in this issue on:
  1. Denotatif et Connotatif dans la Peinture de Frank Etienne.
  2. L'Histoire d'Haiti dans la dramaturgie africaine
  3. Deux hauts fonctionnaires francais a St-Domingue
  4. Francois Perroux: Pour une philosophie du nouveau developpement
  5. Sante publique et developpement des villes dans les pays chauds
  6. Bibliograhie haitienne 1981-1982
  Book is in good condition.
  • $15.00

• Courlander, Harold. THE PIECE OF FIRE AND OTHER HAITIAN TALES. Put bluntly: the best collection of Haitian folk tales ever assembled in English. Courlander was a wonderful anthropologist and collector of Haitian materials.
  • Fine copy in original dustjacket. $22.00
  • Nice copy in original dustjacket. $21.00
  • Ex-library copy, but worn and without dust jacket, text is just fine. $19.00.

• Coulander, Harold, decorated by Lucy Herndon Crockett    UNCLE BOUQUI OF HAITI    William Morrow & Co., New York, 1942. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Crockett, Lucy Herndon (illustrator). 8vo - Between 7 3/4" and 9 3/4". 127 Pages. Geography and culture of Haiti woven into a story. This copy is out of the library of J. Douglass Crooks. I have no idea what ever happened to his library, but in the early days of my collecting he trading with me and sold me materials. He died in the early 1990s and I was unsuccessful in contacting his family after that.
  • $55.00

• Crowninshield, Mrs. Schuyler    LATITUDE 19 DEGREES     New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898. A 418 page novel set in Christophe's Haiti. The author is clearly influenced by Sir Spencer St. John. Book is in very nice condition, a hard bound with pictures impressed on the cover.
  • $40.00

• Danticat, Edwidge    BREATH, EYES, MEMORY    Beautiful story of three generations of Haitian women.
  • Lovely first edition hard bound in original dust jacket $25.00
  • Paper bound version. Like new, $8.00
  • Paper bound version, used, but nice. $5.00

• Danticat, Edwidge    CHILDREN OF THE SEA     This is the first story of KRIK? KRAK! but it is published separately as a pamphlet sized story. Uses the same cover at KRIK? KRAK! but is in slightly smaller format. An unusual item and should be added to the collection of some Danticat collector.
  • $12.00

• Danticat, Edwidge    THE FARMING OF BONES     Novel set in the aftermath of the 1937 Dominican slaughter of Haitians
  • Hard bound in original dust jacket $20.00
  • Like-new condition paper bound version $8.00

• Dash, J. Michael    HAITI & THE UNITED STATES: NATIONAL STEREOTYPES & THE LITERARY IMAGINATION.    New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. This is the first American printing after having first been published that same year in London. Hard bound book in dust jacket, both in very fine condition. An important volume by an important scholar.
  • $145.00

• Dash, J. Michael    LITERATURE AND IDEOLOGY IN HAITI: 1915-1961     Published in 1981, this is an excellent condition hardbound book in original dust jacket. Important study.
  • $88.00

• Davis, H.P.   BLACK DEMOCRACY    New York: Dodge Publishing Co. 1936. Probably the second best history of Haiti in English. This 1936 edition of this 360 page book is quite hard to find.
  Good conditon but no dustjacket. $40.00

• Depestre, Rene. FESTIVAL OF THE GREASY POLE.. Hardbound 1990 English translation of this fabulous Haitian novel of political satire.
  • Hard bound copy like new. $82.00.
  Paperback version. $65.00.

• Deren, M. (1970).    DIVINE HORSEMEN: THE VOODOO GODS OF HAITI    New York, Chelsea House Publishers. This is simply a classic of issue of Voodoo in Haiti.
  • Hard bound volume, in original dust jacket. Fine condition. $38.00
  • Also 1970 paper bound in very good condition. $27.00
  
  
• Dickson, Murray    WHERE THERE IS NO DENTIST     Palo Alto, CA.: The Hesperian Foundation, 1983.
  • $10.00

• Douge, Daniel    CARIBBEAN PILGRIMS: THE PLIGHT OF THE HAITIAN REFUGEES     Exposition Press. Book, 1982. Book is hard bound, in the origianl dust jacket and in fine condition.
  • $35.00

• Endore, Guy    BABOUK     New York: The Vanguard Press, [1934]., 1934. 297 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth. First edition. Hard bound in original dust jacket. Very small amount of wear on the dust jacket at very top of spine. Otherwise in very good condition. Book has some yellowing of pages, otherwise very good. Babouk was a slave born in Africa, brought to St. Domingue and participates in the revolution.
  • $70.00

• EMIGRATION TO HAYTI     Niles Weekly Register, 1824. Whole issue. Includes an essay by an American in Port-au-Prince about the emigration of free blacks from the U.S. to Hayti since the attempt to re-colonize Africa has failed. Also long essay on the African topic in this same issue. Text is yellowed and delicate but in very nice condition.
  • $50.00

• Esalen, Wilner W.    TOO SMALL TO DIE     New York: Vantage Press, 1981. In the aftermath of the Dominican slaughter of Haitians in 1937 a brother and sister struggle to survive and were "too small to die." Dramatic true story from Haiti. Hardbound book in origianl dust jacket. The jacket has some edge tears, and about a 1 inch tear at top of jacket at seam. Book is in very good condition.
  • $18.00

• EWen, Charles R.    FROM SPANIARD TO CREOLE: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CULTURAL FORMATION AT PUERTO REAL, HAITI    Tuscaloosa, Al: The University of Alabama Press, 1991. 155 pages, soft cover, like new.
  • $8.00

• Ewers, Hanns Heinz    BLOOD     New York: Heron Press, Inc., 1930. BLOOD is three short stories, all celebrating blood sacrifice in some form. The first story, Mamaloi, concerns alleged sacrifice of children in Haiti and cites Sir Spencer St. John as an authority. St. Mery is another source. The other two stories are set in Europe, one concerning a pure maiden who kills a white dove, and then an Andulusian tale of a priest who loves blood sacrifice in bull fights, cock fights and finally, human battles to-the-death, the "salsa." The book itself has a colorful cover, is oversized and with thick pages and some intriguing wood cuts inside. This is copy # 239 of the first 750 copies prnted of this book.
  • $75.00

• Farmer, Paul    AIDS AND ACCUSATION: HAITI AND THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLAME     Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992. Important study of this topic so current to Haiti today. Hardbound in original dust jacket in excellent condition.
  • $15.00

• Farmer, Paul    THE USES OF HAITI    1994 book by one of America's best known radical leftist political analysts.
  • Excellent condition hardbound: $16.00
  • Like new paper bound edition: $12.00

• Farrere, Claude. Transleated from the French by Leo Ongley    THOMAS THE LAMBKIN    Dutton, NY, 1924. Hard cover, dust jacket very good but a few tears and missing pieces at the bottom of the spine and one small on near the top of the spine. Book itself in in very good condition. 433 pages, relatively small print. 6¾"-7¾" tall. They don't write swashbucklers like this any more. Pirates, wenches, the high seas.
  • 32.00

• Ferguson, James    PAPA DOC BABY DOC: HAITI AND THE DUVALIERS    British writer's 1987 analysis of the Duvalier era.
  • Hardbound volume in like new dust jacket $19.00
  • Like new paper version $15.00

• Franklyn, Irwin R. KNIGHTS OF THE COCKPIT: A ROMAITIC EPIC OF THE FLYING MARINES IN HAITI. 1931 first edition of the very rare novel set in Haiti during the first U.S. occupation. Write me for more details about this novel. Good but worn condition.
  • $95.00.

• Garcia, A.    HISTORY OF THE WEST INDIES     London: George G. Harrap and Co., Ltd, 1965.
  • $25.00

• Garret, Naomi M.    THE RENAISSANCE OF HAITIAN POETRY     Published in Paris in 1963, this is a soft cover book with yellowing pages, but in excellent condition. Text is in English, but quoted poetry is in French. Quite scarce.
  • $40.00

• Geggus, David    SLAVERY, WAR, AND REVOLUTION: THE BRITISH OCCUPATION OF SASINT DOMINGUE 1793-1798     Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982. This is a 492 page classic study, a sort of revised version of Geggus's doctoral dissertation. The copy is hard bound, in the original dust jacket and almost like new.
  • $115.00

• Gilliam, Edward W.    1791: A TALE OF SAN DOMINGO     Baltimore: John Murphy, Co, 1890. A novel of the revolution. Hardbound book of 308 pages. Worn, but not excessively. Yellowing pages, but overall the book is in very good condition.
  • $65.00

• Glissant, Edouard    MONSIEUR TOUSSAINT: A PLAY    1981 English translation of this French play. Very nice condition paperbound edition.
  • $22.00

• Gold, Herb    HAITI WITH JOY AND SQUALOR     An article in Geo magazine, September 1979. Very colorful images accompany Gold's witty text. 22 page article. It is offered in the entire edition of that month's GEO magazine and the issue is like new.
  • $15.00

•    GRANDHIVA: AU MESEE DU QUAI BRANTY   revue d'anthropologie et de museologie. No 1 nouvelle serie, 2005. Virtually the entire 271 pages of this very heavy journal is about Haiti. Contents:
  
  
  • Etudes et essais
    • 5 Des comparables dans le champ du politique.
    • Entre nous ethnologues et historiens
    • La France et Haiti le mythe et la realite, suivi d'un entretien de Jean Luc Bonniaol
  • Dossier: Haiti % L'Anthropologie
    • Cheminemnent anthropologique en Haiti
    • Liberer le double, la beaute sera convulsive a propos d’une collection d’art vodou
    • La creation plastique et le toumnant ethnologique en Haiti
    • Antenor Firmnin and Haiti’s contribution to anthropology
    • Anthropologic, politique et engagement social l’experience du Bureau d’ethnologie d’Haiti
    • Haiti and the anthropological imagination
    • Le statut du vodou et l’histoire de l'anthropologie
    • Prohibition, persecution, performance: anthropology and the penalization of vodou in mid-20th century
    • D'une ile a l’autre: Alfred Metraux en Haiti
    • Triste terrain de jeu: a propos de ‘adoption internationale
  • Documents et matérlaux
    • rendez-vous manque avec le vodou
    • Sacrifice d’un taureau
    • "Tresors de veillees": les contes haitiens recueillis par Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain
    • "Croyances religieuses populaires en Haiti" radio conference suivie de deux lettres, recueillies et présentées par Christine Laurière
    • "Mes anlis les paysans de Marbial" article inedit, suivi d’une lettre a Benoit Levi, recueillis et présentés par C. Lauriére
  • 26 Chronique scientifique
    • Jacques Rournain, "Ouvres completes" (Gaetano Ciarcia)
    • Madison Smartt Bell, "Le Soulevement des ames, et Le Maître des carrefours" (Nicolas Menut)
    • Laënnec Hurbon, "Religions et lien social: l’Eglise et l’Etat moderne en Haiti (Rose-Mie Leonard)
    • "Outre-Mers," 2003, 340-341: "Haiti, premiere Republique noire (Colette Pratt)
    • "Nostalgie du neolithique. De Lausanne a Los Lomitas. Documents sur Alfred Met raux ethnologue," ed par Alain Monnier (Christine Laurière)
  8.5x11 book using heavy paper, slick style.
  • $55.00

• Gold, Herbert (1965).    HAUNTED HAITI    Holiday Magazine. Vol. 37, pages 64-69. 8 very large color prints of Haitian paintings by well-known first generation artists. The main offering is of the entire magazine. It is very large 10x14 inches. Good condition.
  • $10.00
  • B/w xerox copy of the article only $2.00
  
  
• Goodwin, John    THE IDOL AND THE PREY: A NOVEL OF HAITI    Hardbound novel in original dust jacket. First edition published in 1953. Involves three ex-pat Americans involved in intrigue and Voodoo in Haiti.
  • $19.00

• Goodwin, William B.    THE LURE OF GOLD: BEING THE STORY OF THE FIVE LOST SHIPS OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS     Boston: Meador Publishing Company, 1940. Fold out map and slick b/w photos. Good research.
  • $85.00

• Gouraud, Madame    THE TWO CHILDREN OF ST. DOMINGO     New York: Scribner, Welford and Armstrong, 1875. This is a novel that deals with foreigners and slavery. 178 pages with numerous illustrations. The small book is very lovely with gold leaf on the page ends. A few of the illustrations are loose in the book, but all the text pages seem fully intact.
  • $47.00

• Grant, President Ulysses S.    MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATE COMMUNICATING, IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE RESOLUTION TO THE PROPOSED ANNEXATION OF THE DOMINICAN PORTION OF THE ISLAND OF SAN DOMINGO     Wash. DC, U.S. Government, 1871. Disbound from records of 41st Congress, 3rd Session. 116 pages. Pages are somewhat yellowed, but overall in very nice condition.
  • $45.00

• Greene Graham.     THE COMEDIANS.     This is the classic story of Papa Doc's macoutes and got Greene banned from Haiti for life.
  • Hardbound with dust jacket $10.00
  • Hardbound without dust jacket $9.00

• Greene Graham.    YOURS ETC. LETTERS TO THE PRESS 1945-89     Hard bound in original dust jacket, like new.
  • Hardbound with dust jacket $8.00

• Grenville, C. C.    CONVENTION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND HAYTI, FOR THE MOST EFFECTUAL SUPPRESSION OF THE SLAVE TRADE     The convention was Dec. 23, 1839. This is a 13 page account of this convention. Published in England and disbound from source document. Text in good condtion.
  • $40.00

• Griffiths, Ann    THOMAS CLARKSON: THE FRIEND OF THE SLAVES    Westport, Conn.: Negro Universities Press, 1970 reprint of a 1936 original. Hard bound book like new.
  • $22.00

• Griggs, Earl Leslie    BLACK PATRIOT AND MARTYR: TOUSSAINT OF HAITI    Julian Messner, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1970. Hard bound in original dust jacket. Book in good condition as is dust jacket.
  • $40.00

• Gruening, Ernest H.    HAITI UNDER AMERICAN OCCUPATION     The Century Magazine: Vol. 103 # 6. April 1922. Pages 836-845. I am offering the whole edition of this nicely toned magazine. Gruening was a prolific writer on the Occupation, especially in The Nation magazine.
  • $19.00

• HANDBOOK OF HAITI     Washington, DC: Bureau of the American Republics, 1892. This is a publication of Congress. It is rebound in lovely boards and leather spine. 240 pages and a large and very nice colored map of Haiti.
  • $45.00

• Harvey, W.W. SKETCHES OF HAYTI FROM THE EXPULSION OF THE FRENCH, TO THE DEATH OF CHRISTOPHE    Reprinted by Negro University Press, 1970 from 1827 original. Full book, not edited. Very fine condition.
  • $165.00
  from the expulsion of the French, to the death of Christophe.
• HAYTI     Baltimore: Niles' Weekly Register, 1825. A plea from an unnamed author for the U.S. to recognize Haiti. Text is dark but otherwise in good condition.
  • $30.00

• Heckert, Eleanor   THE LITTLE SAINT OF ST. DOMINGUE: A NOVEL OF THE GREAT REVOLUTION IN HAITI.    This is a hardbound, 1973 first edition of his long novel.
  The book and dust jacket are in very good condition.
  • $35.00.

• Henty, G. A.    A ROVING COMMISSION OR THROUGH THE INSURRECTION IN HAITI     London: Blackie and Son, 1900. Long youth novel set in the Haitian Revoluiton. First edition. 12 plates by William Rainey. 8vo, pp. 383:30 (Those extra 30 pages are the publishers catalogue). Original red pictorial cloth. Book is a bit loose from spine, but still all intact.
  • $32.00

• HIPPOLYTE: MODULE 30.    Small art show catalogue of work of painter Gerard Hippolye. Images in both black and white and color. Text in French by Gesner Armand and Michel P. Lerebours. Bibliography.
  • $17.00.

• Hippolyte-Manigat, Mirande.    HAITI AND THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY.    1980 over-sized paperback.
  • $18.00.

• HISTORY, LITERATURE &C. OF HAYTI     Unsigned article in Niles' Weekly Register, Baltimore, MD, 1820. This 187 year old newspaper which I have in my library has a rather ironic set of stories. Early in the paper is a story entitled: HISTORY, LITRATURE, &c. OF HAYTI. This long story was reprinted from "The British Review from March 1820." The irony is that this story celebrates the rule of both Christophe in the north and Boyer in the south and shows what a marvelous job each is doing and how, while technically at war, they do a decent job of getting along. Then, later in the paper is a another significant report of the uprising against Christophe which began at St. Marc and led to his suicide and the unification of Hayti. However, in this story, just pages later in the same newspaper, Christophe has become this horrible tyrrant and murderer. The issue isn't so much which picture of Christophe is the correct one. Rather, it is the irony that the editors of the Baltimore paper, Niles' Weekly Reader, either didn't notice the contradictory portraits of Christophe or they didn't care. No matter the editorical position, or lack of same, this is an extradinarily vivid picture of the Haiti in the last days of the division into the Kindom of the north and the Republic of the south. It is a bit skimpy in details of the revolution and downfall of of Christophe.
  • $55.00

• Hoffmann, Leon-Francois    ESSAYS ON HAITIAN LITERATURE     Washington, DC: Three Continents Press, 1984. An overview essay, another on the language situation, a third on slavery and literature, lectures on Americans and woman in Haitian literature, a special analysis of Emeric Bergeaud's "Stella" and a bibliography of critical studies of Haitian literature. Hardboud copy in very fine condition.
  • 22.00

• Holly, Marc Aurele    AGRICULTURE IN HAITI: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO RURAL ECONOMY AND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.     New York: Vantage Press, 1953. Stated first edition. Very scarce book, perhaps it deserves to be called rare. 309 pages + a bibliography of several pages. Hardboud copy in very good condition in the original dust jacket. One tear on the lower left side of dust jacket.
  • 122.00

• Horn, W.O. von         A. CONGO     A children's book with colorful cover, printed in 1899. 90 pages. Set in colonial San Domingue it is the story of a boy brought over from African into slavery. The book is nice, colorful but a bit beat up.
  • $35.00.

• Hugo, Victor    BUG-JARGAL     New York: Croscup and Co., 1894. This is volume 26 of the complete works of Hugo. Bug-Jargal is set in Haiti, and is a 302 page novel of the Haitian Revolution. This is a lovely hardbound copy. The pages are yellowed and the edges of all are heavily wrinkled, not affecting any text at all. I think they are just brittle from the nature of the paper.
  • $80.00

• Hurston, Zora Neale    TELL MY HORSE: VOODOO AND LIFE IN HAITI AND JAMAICA    New York: Harper Perennial, 1990. Very fine condition paper bound book.
  • $6.00

• Huxley, Francis    HAITI CHERIE     The Geographical Magazine, 1963. Whole edition of the magazine, colorful and informative.
  • $18.00

• Inman, Samuel Guy    THROUGH SANTO DOMINGO AND HAITI: A CRUISE WITH THE MARINES     NY: Committee on Co-operation in Latin America, 1924. About 1/2 this 94 page book is devoted to Haiti. They include Inman's report of what he saw, data he gathered and some notes on history. A very scarce item. Book is paper and in good condition with no noticeable flaws and some yellowing of the pages.
  • $90.00

• Jakovsky, Anatole.     PEINTURE HAITIENNE.     86 page exhibition catalogue from a 1983 exhibition in Nice, France. Artists are treated alphabetically with a representation of their art in a large b/w print, and bibliographic material. 40 artists presented. Text in French.
  • $40.00.
  • One copy with slight wrinkles on cover. $35.00.

• Jeanty, Edner A.    PAROL GRANMOUN: 999 HAITIAN PROVERBS IN CREOLE AND ENGLISH.    Port-au-Prince: Editions Learning Center, 1976. 172 pages, paper bound, like new.
  • $59.00.

• Jerome, Yves J.    TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE     New York: Hollywood Vantage Press, 1978. First edition. Copyright Office stamp on the copyright stamp, Library of Congress surplus duplicate stamp on the front free endpaper. Fine condition is white dust jacket with a few very small, closed tears. The author was born in Port-au-Prince.
  • $60.00

• Johnson, Andrew, President of the U.S.    ANTONIO PELLETIER: MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES     Washington, DC: The House of Representatives, 1868. Long treatment of the Pelletier affair. Disbound from House documents.
  • $40.00

• Johnston, Sir Harry. .     HAITI THE HOME OF TWIN REPUBLICS.    And    HAITI AND ITS REGENERATION BY THE UNITED STATES.     Dec. 1920, National Geographic. These two essays by the famous travel writer are, in part, a justification of the American Occupation, but also a documenting of it. His two essays are accompanied by 21 b/w photos, many of them of the occupation troops and troop activities.
  
  Also in this same edition: Osterhout, Major G.H., Jr. A LITTLE-KNOWN MARVEL OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. 1920 National Geographic feature on the Citadel including 12 b/w photos. Text is a history of the citadel and quite detailed.
  
  This is the entire December edition of 1920, complete and in good shape. The spine is a bit tattered, but otherwise quite nice. Since this issue has a very famous story on the art of falconry, it is an especially hard to find edition since falconry fanciers have gotten all the copies!
  • Nice copy of whole magazine from December 1920. $30.00.

• Koenig, Hans    COLUMBUS: HIS ENTERPRISE     New York: Monthly Review Press, 1976. Most of us have been taught that Columbus was a courageous, visionary hero. Koning explodes that myth. Very good condition paper back.
  • $10.00

• Laferriere, Dany    AN AROMA OF COFFEE     1987. Very nice conditioned paper.
  • $15.00

• Laferriere, Dany    DINING WITH THE DICTATOR     1987. Very nice conditioned paper.
  • $15.00

• Laferriere, Dany    DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN     1987. Very nice conditioned paper.
  • $15.00

• Laguerre, Michel S.    AMERICAN ODYSSEY: HAITIANS IN NEW YORK CITY   Cornell Univ Press, Ithaca, New York, 1984. Fine conditioned paper.
  • $13.00

• Lature, Denize (Sanbas; Nephew)    WHEN THE DENIZEN WEEPS     Denizenism Editions (1988) Wrs, 98pp. Haitian poet. Book like new.
  • $35.00

• Lawyers Committee for Human, Rights    PAPER LAWS, STEEL BAYONETS: BREAKDOWN OF THE RULE OF LAW IN HAITI     New York: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, 1990. Paper bound loke new. 215 pages of reports and analyses.
  • $9.00

• Lawless, Robert    HAITI A RESEARCH HANDBOOK     New York: Garland Publishing, 1990. Hardbound in fine condition. 354 page bibliography arranged by topics and having an index as well. 15 or so entries a page in this long study. The entries are all numbered and some dope (ME), put small red circle around the number of the books he had in his library! Nonetheless, this doesn't in any way obscure any text, just makes the reader very jealous of the library I had!
  • $50.00

• Lawless, Robert    HAITI'S BAD PRESS     Marvelous analysis of Haiti's image in the world's press. Nice condition paperbound book published in 1992.
  • $48.00

• Leaf, Earl    ISLES OF RHYTHM     New York: A.S. Barnes and Co., 1948.
  • $10.00

• LeGuin, Ursula K.    THE VISIONARY: THE LIFE STORY OF FLICKER OF THE SERPENTINE.    Capra Press,, (Santa Barbara, CA)., 1984. Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine by Ursula K. LeGuin [and] WONDERS HIDDEN: Audubon's Early Years by Scott R. Sanders [Two Volumes in One]. 12mo, pictorial wrappers, pp. 43, [2]; 79, [2]. The Sanders volume is a fictional biography of artist John James Audobon's boyhood , from his illegitimate birth in Haiti, through the reigno terror in France, to his exile at age 18 in America. Paper bound in fine condition.
  • $10.00

• Lemoine, Maurice    BITTER SUGAR: SLAVES TODAY IN THE CARIBBEAN    Nice condition paperbound copy of this study.
  • $17.00

• LE MUSEE D'ART HAITIEN DU COLLEGE SAINT-PIERRE.   1983 booklet on the collection. 8 1/2 x 11 size paper. Many color and b/w prints, plus list of collection. Color cover of Hector Hyppolite painting.
  • $25.00.

• LE MUSEE D'ART HAITIEN DU COLLEGE SAINT-PIERRE.     1990s version of booklet on the collection. 8 1/2 x 11 size paper. Many color and b/w prints, plus list of collection. Color cover of Hector Hyppolite painting. Text in French.
  • $22.00

• Levin, Benjamin H. BLACK TRIUMVIRATE SCULPTURE   Secaucus Citadel Press 1972. In the early part of the nineteenth century the enslaved blacks in the French Caribbean colony of Haiti overthrew their masters and set up the first independent black nation in the Americas. This novel recreates the violent events which transpired during those tumultuous days. The uprising was led Toussaint L'Ouverture, Jean Dessalines and Henri Christophe. First Edition. Hardcover, with original dust jacket. Fine condition. First edition.
  • New paper bound copy. $19.00

•  LIFE IN HAITI     THE KICKERBOCKER magazine, 1841. The story is pages 300-306 and 489-495. It was written from St. Croix. I have the entire bound year 1841 of The Kinkcerbocker. The cover is loose from the binding, but all pages are intact. The bound volume is about 2 inches thick.
  • $18.00

• Litten, Frederic Nelson    RHODES OF THE LEATHERNECKS     New York: Dodd and Mead and Company, 1936. Youth novel set in the U.S. Occupation in Haiti. Book is hard bound in very nice condition, solid in all ways.
  • $25.00

• Little, Louis McCarty    LOUIS MCCARTY LITTLE PAPERS (1915 - 1960)     Quantico, VA: United States Marine Corps Museum, 1971. This booklet was published by the Marine Corps in relation to Little's work in the corps, and particularly his work during his time in Haiti during the U.S. Occupation, 1931-34. The booklet contains a biographical sketch and then descriptions and locations of documents within U.S. Marine libraries. 77 page.
  • $18.00

• Loederer, Richard A. VOODOO FIRE IN HAITI. First edition, 1935. Excellent condition. A classic travelogue. Exaggerated, racist, sensationalist, nonetheless, informative and entertaining. Literary Guild, but only English version.
  • Very good. $15.00.

• Logan, Rayford HAITI AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968. First serious book length study of a comparison of the two countries and their interactions. Rayford was an important African-American scholar and this 1968 work is one of his noted achievements. Excellent condition first edition hard bound in dust jacket.
  • Seldom offered for sale. First edition in dust jacket. $38.00.

• Loure, Dr L.    HAITI: THE ALLY OF THE DEMOCRACIES     P-a-P: Impremerie du College Vertieres, 1942. Deals with economics and politics of Haiti as an ally in WWII. 52 pages, soft bound, yellowing pages with some interesting ads at the beginning and end of the text.
  • $39.00

• MaGuire, Robert, Edwige Balutansky, James Fomer and Larry Minear    HAITI HELD HOSTAGE: INTERNATIONAL RESPONSES TO THE QUEST FOR NATIONHOOD 1986 TO 1996    Very important work of scholars on this crucial period of Haitian history. 137 pages and like new.
  • $65.00
  • Also offering the French version of this work. $65.00

• Margaret, S. J. (1956).    HAITI: LAND OF MOUNTAINS   . Greenwich, Conn., The Seabury Press. Paper bound overview of Haiti for Methodist Church workers in Haiti. Deals with lots of basic data about Haiti and the Methodist presence there.
  • $18.00
  
  
• McKinley, William    MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN RESPONSE TO RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE OF FEBRUARY 16, 1898, I TRANSMIT A PREPORT FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE, AND ACCOMPANYING PAPERS, RELATING TO THE CLAIM OF HUGO O. LOEWI AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT OF HAITI     Washington: Department of State, 1898. Disbound from Senate papers of 54th Congress, 24th sesstion March 14, 1898.
  • $15.00

• Metraux, Alfred.     BLACK PEASANTS AND VOODOO     N. Y.: Universe Books, 1960. First Edition. Hardbound,large 4to, VG+ in original and colorful dust jacket. An important ethnographic and photo book, with interesting photos by Verger (L). profusely illus. with both color and black/white plates,(mainly b/w). 8.5x11 inches, 110 + pages.
  • $117.00

• Metraux, Alfred.     VOODOO IN HAITI.     Classic book on the Haitian religion.
  • Hard bound, 1959 edition in original dust jacket. Very fine. $28.00
  • Nice condition paperback. $17.00

• MISSION TO HAITI: REPORT OF THE UNITED NATIONS MISSION OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO THE REPUBLIC OF HAITI     Lake Success, NY: U.N. Publication, 1949. Softcover, 327 pp, 6"x9" paperback. Ex-library and stamps on cover from library.
  • $26.00

• Monroe, Gary   DETENTION AT KROME: PHOTOGRAPHS OF HAITIAN REFUGEES    Philadelphia: The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, 1985. Wrappers. Unpaginated [24 pages including illustrated wrappers], 18 photographs, text. This copy is like new.
  • $17.00

• Morand, Paul    BLACK MAGIC    New York: Viking Press, 1929. Translated from the French by Hamish Miles. Eight stylish illustrations by Aaron Douglas tipped in. 218 p. Tour of Baton Rouge; Charleston; Excelsior, Georgia; Syracuse, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Sudan, and Liberia. Lead story, "Congo," inspired by Josephine Baker.
  • $35.00

• Mortas, Michele   HAITI     Les Editions du Pacifique, 1975. Color photographs throughout; 128 p. : col. Ill. ; 21 cm. Illustrated by Bernard Hermann. Fine condition in original dust jacket.
  • $16.00

• Mortel, Rodrigue M. D.    I AM FROM HAITI     Heshey, Pa.: The Mortel Family Foundation, 2000. Story of Dr. Mortel a physician in Haiti and from Haiti. Like new hardbound in original dust jacket.
  • $15.00

• Murry-Aaron, Eugene    BUTTERFLY HUNTERS IN THE CARIBBEES     New York: Charles Schribner and Sons, 1894. This is a youth novel. The story involves a search for rare butterflies conducted by two American boys and a naturalist in the Bahamas, Haiti, and Jamaica. Wonderful descriptions of wildlife, native customs, and plants are found throughout the book. The book is in good condition, solid throughout.
  • $48.00

• NACLA   HAITI: DANGEROUS CROSSROADS    Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: South End Pr, 1995. Soft cover. 256 pages. Many essays on current political situation. Like new.
  • $15.00

• Newman, Oliver P.    BARE FEET AND BURROWS IN HAITI.    National Geographic Sept. 1944. Also in same issue: B. Anthony Stewart:     HAITI GOES TO MARKET.     Total of 20 photos in the two essays, some of them in color, but not normal color photos, but those earlier painted-looking photos. Some really nice, as one expects from National Geo. The whole magazine, which also includes some second world war stories and a popular one on working dogs.
  
  The war year National Geos are hard to get since they are collected for their war stories and photographs.
  • This is a worn copy with some fraying on the spine, but the text is perfect throughout. $19.00.

• Nicholls, David    HAITI IN CARIBBEAN CONTEXT: ETHNICITY, ECONOMY AND REVOLT.     New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Very important study. The book is in fine condition with the original dust jacket like new.
  • $93.00

• Nicole, Christopher    BLACK MAJESTY: BOOK 1 -- THE SEEDS OF REBELLION    London: Severn House Publications, 1984. This is volume 1 of a trilogy. I have the whole trilogy, but not all listed yet. This is a novel set in the Haitian Revolution. Hard bound in the original dust jacket.
  • $18.00

• Niles, Blair.     BLACK HAITI.     1926 edition of this report from Haiti by an American living there during the occupation. 325 pages and photos. Hardbound edition is good condition.
  
  From my own notes on this book: Written in 1925 during the Occupation. Sort of a touristy book, but well written and sympathetic to Haitians, opposed to both the Occupation and Monroe Doctrine in The Americas. Niles is a world traveller who knows how to get around. Sensitive and observative.
  • $25.00.

• Norbeck, Mildred E.    THE HAITIAN CHALLENGE AND YOU     Missionary's view of Haiti. Paperbound in excellent condition
  • $13.00

• O'Neill, Eugene     EMPEROR JONES     There are three plays in this hardbound Modern Library edition. The play Emperor Jones is strongly based on the person of Jean-Jaques Dessalines.
  • $6.00

• Osterhout, Major G.H., Jr.     A LITTLE-KNOWN MARVEL OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.    1920 National Geographic feature on the Citadel including 12 b/w photos. Text is a history of the citadel and quite detailed.
  
  Also in this edition: Sir Harry Johnston.    HAITI THE HOME OF TWIN REPUBLICS. And HAITI AND ITS REGENERATION BY THE UNITED STATES.
  
  These two essays by the famous travel writer are, in part, a justification of the American Occupation, but also a documenting of it. His two essays are accompanied by 21 b/w photos, many of them of the occupation troops and troop activities.
  
  This is the entire December edition of 1920, complete and in good shape. The spine is a bit tattered, but otherwise quite nice. Since this issue has a very famous story on the art of falconry, it is an especially hard to find edition since falconry fanciers have gotten all the copies!
  • $35.00.

• Paquin, Lyonel. THE HAITIANS: CLASS AND COLOR POLITICS. This has always been one of my favorite histories of Haiti. Admittedly Paquin writes in exile from New York, sort of using this book as a platform to become next emperor of Haiti, but he deals in a fascinating way with the class and color issue. Also, his was one of the first full lists of presidents, their turms of office and manner of going out of office which I had seen. This used to be for sale EVERYWHERE in Haiti, and each visit I'd bring back 10-15 copies and sell them quickly. Now it has become very scarce and I haven't seen one for sale in Haiti in more than 10 years. It was published in 1983.
  I've never seen a hard bound of this one, it's a bright yellow paper back.
  • Nice condition. $65.00.

• Paterson, A. S. and F. M. Shepherd    ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND IN THE REPUBLIC OF HAYTI     London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1936. 62 page document in paper binding from England's government. Important data on Haiti's economy.
  • $35.00

• Patterson, Carolyn Bennett.     HAITI: BEYOND MOUNTAINS, MORE MOUNTAINS.     National Geographic, Jan. 1976. Whole magazine.
  • Nice condition. $8.50.

• Perusse, Roland.     HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF HAITI.     Quite scarce item. 124 page "dictionary" of people, places and events in Haiti, often 5 to 10 a page, some longer entries. A marvelous research tool.
  • Nice condition ex-library. $70.00.

• Peters, DeWitt. HAITIAN PAINTING.     Phenomenal photographs including Hyppolite painting, and a couple of his canvases in very large color photos. Text by Peters. Life Magazine, Sept. 1, 1947. The whole magazine is offer. Hard to find since the cover is of auto racing rage of the time, John Cobb, thus most copies are in the hands of collectors of memoriabilia of that sport!
  • $40.00

• Pierre, Charles Al Tidor    SILENCE?     Port-au-Prince, Imprimerie Saint Matthieu, 1988. 46p., Poetry in English and French . Book like new.
  • $8.00

• Plant, Roger    SUGAR AND MODERN SLAVERY: A TALE OF TWO COUNTRIES     London: Zed Books Ltd., 1987. Careful study of sugar and Haiti / Dominican Republic relationship. Paperbound in nice condition.
  • $25.00

• Plummer, Brenda.     HAITI AND THE GREAT POWERS: 1902-1915.     Wonderful scholarly book on the conditions which lead to the U.S. occupation of Haiti in 1915. 260 page study. Nice condition paperbound.
  • $19.00.

• Postal, Bernard and Malcom H. Stern    AMERICAN AIRLINES TOURIST'S GUIDE TO JEWISH HISTORY IN THE CARIBBEAN     No date. Cute, colorful small book put out by American Airlines. 95 pages on the topic. Includes a section on Haiti.
  • $50.00

• Preeg, Ernest H.    THE HAITIAN DILEMMA: A CASE STUDY IN DEMOGRAPHICS, DEVELOPMENT, AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY     Washington, DC: The Center For Strategic and International Studies, 1996. Paper bound like new, 132 pages.
  • $48.00

• Price, Richard, editor    MAROON SOCIETIES: REBEL SLAVE COMMUNITIES IN THE AMERICAS     The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Paper bound in fine condition. 429 pages of relatively small print. Edited essays from source in the 18th to 20th cnetury. A wealth of information.
  • $22.00

• Prose, Francine    PRIMITIVE PEOPLE    Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1992. A stinging comedy of manners that holds up a highly unflattering mirror to the self-indulgent behavior of the upper middle class. Into this upper middle class NY family comes Simone, an au pair from Haiti. Wonderfully written novel. Hardbound in original dust jacket. Like new.
  • $13.00.

• Reed, Ishmael.     MUMBO JUMBO.    HooDoo novel. Private Eyes LaBas and Black Herman investigate questions. Touches on all forms of Voodoo influences. Nice paperback.
  • $15.00.

• Rhodes, Jewell Parker    VOODOO DREAMS: A NOVEL OF MARIE LAUVEAU.    Picador, 1995. Paperback. Very nice condition. 433 pages. New Orleans in the mid-nineteenth century is a city overflowing with white aristos, black creoles, and African slaves, a city that pulses with crowds, with commerce, and with the power and spectacle of the voodoo religion. At the center of the ritual is Marie Laveau, the notorious voodooienne, worshipped and feared by blacks and whites alike. Marie's followers claimed that she walked on water and sucked poison from a snake's jowls, that she raised the dead and murdered two men. Voodoo Dreams is the spellbinding story of the woman behind the legend. Raised by her Grandmere in the Louisiana bayou, Marie ventures to New Orleans and begins a journey of self-discovery, hoping to find her lost Maman and understand the visions that haunt her dreams. Instead, she runs headlong into the brutality of slavery and oppression, and into the arms of John, the voodoo doctor who promises to teach her what Grandmere will not. As she falls under his spell, John sweeps Marie into a world of voodoo ceremonies, of drama and manipulation, and of sometimes terrifying power. A mesmerizing combination of history and storytelling, Voodoo Dreams marks the debut of an important new voice in fiction.
  • $7.00.

• Riviere, EWmmanuel W.    ROOTS OF CRISIS IN THE CARIBBEAN    A theological interpretation of Caribbean history. 110 pages. Book is in fine condition.
  • $16.00.

• Roberts, Octavia    THE PERILOUS ISLE     New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1926. Youth novel. A story of the Haitian Revolution based on a (fictional) old family journal. Book is in good condition.
  • $25.00

• Roberts, Kenneth.     LYDIA BAILEY.    (1948) Fascinating 1940s hard back novel of the period of the Revolution in Haiti. Excellent reading.
  • Very nice hard bound copy in fine condition dust jacket. Unusual to find this novel in this condition. $16.00
  • Worn condition, but solid text $10.00
  • Paper bound edition. $6.00

• Rodman, Maia. MARKET DAY FOR TI ANDRE. A children's book telling the story of a boy who gets lost while following a rara band. However, what makes this book a very high demand book is that the illustrations were done by Wilson Bigaud in 1952 at the height of his productivity.
  • A lovely copy inside. Very colorful cover of Bigaud's work $75.00.

• Roumain, Jacques MASTERS OF THE DEW New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. Translated by Langston Hughes and Mercer Cook. This 1947 volume of one of Haiti's most famous novels is hard bound and in a very nice original dust jacket. Book is in very good condition.
  • $20.00
  • Like new paper bound edition, $7.00

• Roumain, Jacques WHEN THE TOM-TOM BEATS: SELECTED PROSE AND POETRY Washington, DC: Azul Editions, 1995. First edition. Bi-lingual edition, translations of the original French into English on facing pages. 109 pages. Oversized paperback in fine condition.
  • $35.00.

• Rowland, Henry C.    IN THE SHADOW     New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1906. Novel set in the regime of Dessalines. 316 pages long. Hardbound, first edition. Cover has a coffee cup stain on it, and some rubbing on spine and edges. A bit of yellowing on some pages, but in very good contion otherwise.
  • $29.00

• Saint, Assotto.    SPELLS OF A VOODOO DOLL     New York: Masquerade Books, 1996. "A fierce, spellbinding collection of the poetry, lyrics, essays and performances texts of Assotto Saint -- one of the most important voices in the renaissance of black gay writing." Paperbound in very good condition.
  • $7.00

• Salinger, Steven D.    WHITE DARKNESS     New York: Crown Publishers, 2001. A Haitian ex-pat in NY city, tied up with crime. Novel. Paper bound in nice condition.
  • $5.00

• Scalora, Sal (curator) (1991).    HAITI: FLESH OF POLITICS SPIRIT OF VODUN   . Storrs, Conn., The University of Connecticut at Stoors. Exhibition catalogue for the show held at the ATRIUM Gallery, March 25-April 19, 1991. Stapled wraps. Interior clean and unmarked. Photos in b/w. Book like new.
  • $12.00
  
  
• Seebohm, Benjamin editor    MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND GOSPEL LABORS OF STEPHEN GRELLET     Philadelphia: Book Association of Friends, 1870. This account of Grellet's life as a missionary was spent in part in Haiti. The Haiti section is on pp. 176-182 June 25, 1816 until Oct. 26, 1816. The book is a hard bound book in nice condition.
  • $32.00

• Shaw, Marian   LAND OF HUNCHBACKS   . Montreal, Canada: CIDIHCA, 1988. A novel love story of a woman, Voodoo initiate, in love with a young Tonton Macoute in Duvalier's days. Hard bound in original dust jacket, Fine condition.
  • $15.00
  
  
• Slaymaker, H. E. and F. M. Shepherd    ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND IN THE REPUBLIC OF HAYTI     London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1934. 65 page document in paper binding from England's government. Important data on Haiti's economy.
  • $35 .00

• Smith, Austine.    HAITI IS WAITING     Small 1978 paperbound book says on cover: "The story of one woman's encounter with voodoo practices and her oppression and deliversance." Nice condition.
  • $8.00

• Sotheby's,    UNPUBLISHED PAPERS OF GENERALS LECLERC AND ROCHAMBEAU DURING THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE IN HAITI 1802-3     London's Sotheby's. This is an auction catalogue just listing many many papers by these two. The papers themselves are not in this auction catalogue, just the titles, descriptions, even some photos of the documents. Long list of them with descriptions.
  • $45.00

• Spell, Kathleen    HAITI DIARY: COMPILED FROM THE LETTERS OF PAUL ORJALA    Kansas City: Beacon Hill Press, 1953. An very scarce book, seldom offer for sale. It is paper bound and the cover is beat up, some tears to the seam, a dog-ear bend at the bottom. The inside first (blank) page has numbers of names and notes written on it. Otherwise the text itself is in fine condition.
  • $27.00

• Steedman, Mabel    UNKNOWN TO THE WORLD -- HAITI     Hurst & Blackett, London, 1939. Hard Cover. 2nd Impression. 287 pages. Frontispiece illustrated with b/w plate. 70 illustrations, .wonderful photos, of the slick sort paper that would scan well. Worn but in nice condition in original dust jacket. Scarce.
  • $52.00

• Stephens, James    THE CRISIS OF THE SUGAR COLONIES     NY: Negro University Press, 1969. Like new hardbound. Reprint of the 1802 classic on the subject.
  • $40.00

• Stuart, M. A.    THE HEALTH OF HAITI: A REVIEW OF THE FISCAL YEAR 1929- 1930     P-a-P: National Public Health Service, 1930. 221 page report on the finances of Haiti. Also, and perhaps most interestingly, contains many many lovely slick papered photos of things and places in Haiti.
  • $32.00

• Sumner, Honorable Charles    INDEPENDENCE OF HAYTI AND LIBERIA     Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1862. The bill to authorize the appointment of diplomatic representatives to the Republics of Hayti and Liberia. This was part of the campaign to have black Americans resettle in either Haiti or Liberia. This is a nice original copy, but yellowed with age.
  • $45.00

• Sumner, Hon. Charles    VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND USURPATIONS OF WAR POWERS     Washington, DC: F. & J. Rives & Geo. A. Bailey, 1871. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts on his St. Domingo Resolutions delivered in the Senate of the United States. Disbound from Senate documents. In good condition.
  • $25.00

• Talent, Robert    THE VOODOO QUEEN     G.P. Putnam's Sons, New-York, 1956 Hardcover in dust jacket. Cover a bit wavy. Quarter binding red and black cloth. 314p. A novel built around the person of Marie Laveau.
  • $8.00

• Tarnowski, Raphael    HAITI    Delroisse, France. Hardbound. Book Condition: Very Good to Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition Very Good. 11" by 8/1/2". Text in French, English, Dutch and Spanish. 163 pages, many color photo illustrations, page edges look faintly foxed. Overall a very lovely book. Many color photos and an overview of Haiti society. The book is not dated. But this volume has a ink dedication to Eleanor Snare dated 1976.
  • 48.00

• Tata, Robert J.    HAITI: LAND OF POVERTY     1982 study of the poverty of Haiti. Like new paperbound.
  • 18.00

• TEACHING ABOUT HAITI     A 32 paged newspaper format teaching guide published by the Network of Educators on the Americas in 1993. This is the original news magazine featuring articles on history of Haiti, maps, folktales, Konbit, Vodou, Haitian Voices and much more. Very good condition.
  • $5.00.

• Thoby-Marcelin, Philippe and Pierre Marcelin.     ALL MEN ARE MAD.     Novel by the famous brothers.
  • Nice condition hardbound in dust jacket $35.00.
  • Nice condition hardbound without dust jacket $28.00.

• Thoby-Marcelin, Philippe and Pierre Marceline.     THE BEAST OF THE HAITIAN HILLS..     Like-new paperback. Marvelous novel of Voodoo and folk customs in the 1940s in Haiti.
  • $14.00.

• Thoby-Marcelin, Philippe and Pierre Marcelin.    CANAPE-VERT.     Prize winning novel second Latin American contest.
  • 1944 edition worn, but in good condition. $30.00.

• Thorne, E.P.     THE MOON DANCE    London: Wright & Brown Limited, 1953. A part of the novel is set in with a Haitian character. Book is in good condition, hardbound and solid text.
  • $39.00

• Tinker, Edward Larocque    GOMBO COMES TO PHILADELPHIA     Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1957. This is mainly a... well, what, a text in gombo. This is the name used in this article for the dialect of people from the Francophone area of the Caribbean. With the Haitian Revolution and other migration, the language came to Philadelphia. The bulk of this book are reprints of very early documents in GOMBO, which is quite close to Haitian Creole. Very scarce text. The booklet is in good condition and text is even better.
  • $92.00

• Tyler, John, President of the U.S.    MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: INFORMATION IN REGARD TO CLAIMS OF CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES ON HAYTI     1842. 27th Congress, 3d session, House of Representatives, Doc. No. 36. Document actually prepared by Daniel Webster who was in the department of state
  • $50.00

• United States Board on Geographic Names    HAITI: OFFICIAL STANDARD NAMES GAZETTEER     From 1973. 8x10.5 inches. 211 pages and small print!! Worn but in very good condition.
  • $40.00

• United States Board on Geographic Names    DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: OFFICIAL STANDARD NAMES GAZETTEER     From 1972. 8x10.5 inches. 477 pages and small print!! Worn but in very good condition.
  • $30.00

• United States, Congress    REPORT OF THE SENATE, JUNE 8, 1870    This is another U.S. government report during the period of the U.S. flirting heavily with annexing the Dominican Republic (San Domingo at that time). This battle was tied to Haiti since at the same time the U.S. was trying to get Mole St. Nicholas from Haiti. This particular long Senate report contains the case of Hatch, court-marshalled in San Domingo. Also general reports on San Domingo.
  • $53.00

•    VARIOUS TREATIES AND PROTOCOLS    TREATY OF AMITY, COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION, AND EXTRADITION (1865)
  
  PROTOCOL OF AN AGREEMENT FOR SUMISSION TO AN ARBITRATOR OF THE CLAIMS OF ANTONIO PELLETIER AND A.H. LAZARE, AGAINST HAYTI (May 28, 1884)
  
  ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL OF AGREEMENT FOR AN EXTENSION OF THE TERM IN WHICH DECISION OF THE UMPIRE MAY BE GIVEN. (March 20, 1885)
  
  PROTOCOL OF AN AGREEMENT FOR SUBMISSION TO AN ARBITRATOR OF THE CLAIM OF CHARLES ADRIEN VAN BOKKELEN (May 24, 1888)
  
  PROTOCOL OF AN AGREEMENT (regarding John D. Metzger) (Oct. 18, 1899)
  
  SUPPLEMENTAL PROTOCOL (June 30, 1900)
  
  NATURALIZATION TREATY (March 17, 1904.)
  
  SUPPLEMENTAL NATURALIZATION CONVENTION (Feb. 28, 1903)
  
  EXTRADITION CONVENTION (Aug. 9, 1904)
  
  ARBITRATION CONVENTION (Jan. 7, 1909) Signed by Elihu Root and J.N.Leger.
  
  Each piece is disbound from Congressional documents. Text is in good condition on all documents.
  • $50.00

• Vandercook, John W.    MURDER IN HAITIL     MacMillan, New York, 1956. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Bertram Lynch and Robert Deane are assigned to protect a financial magnate who is embarking on a trip to Haiti, by yacht, to recover a secret fortune, desperate and sinister characters abound. The book is in very good condition.
  • $12.00
  • Second copy, printed the same year in London. No dustjacket, but excellent copy. $12.00

• Vilaire, Patrick Michele Oriol and Reginald Cohen    PICTURES FROM ESPANOLA AND SAINT-DOMINGUE   Port-au-Prince: Henri Deschamps, 1981. Large format book 8" tall and 11" wide. 142 pages of prints of the colonial period of Haiti. Text in English, Spanish and French. Very good condition.
  • $52.00

• Vinogradov, Anatolii    THE BLACK CONSUL     1935 hardbound edition of this work in original if somewhat damaged dust jacket. Translated from the Russian it is a history of the Haitian Revolution with an emphasis on Toussaint Louverture.
  • $27.00

• Walcott, Derek    THE HAITIAN TRILOGY     New York: Farrah, Straus and Giroux, 2002. Thick over-sized paper, like new. Contains three plays: Henri Christohe -- Drums and Colours -- The Haitian Earth. 434 pages. West Indian writer.
  • $21.00

• WARDS OF THE UNITED STATES.    An unsigned story in National Geographic, August, 1916. The article covers The Dominican Republic, Haiti and Nicaragua. The section on Haiti is extensive and has 30 incredible black and white photos of Haiti. One is extraordinary given the later art revival in the 1940s. Most people are familiar with the famous photo of Hector Hyppolite in front of his home, Ici Renaissance. This 1916 magazine has very similar photo of a different a painted hut. Other photos include a great rural market, streets, cemetery and railroad in P-a-P, arch in Les Cayes, forested mountains, rural tailor, statue of Dessalines, a very unusual photo of the citadel and much more. A very difficult item to find.
  • Nice condition edition. $34.00.

• Waring, Bill S.    YELLOW FEVER: THE SLAVE'S REVENGE     Chapel Hill, NC: Professional Press, 1994. Paperbound book like new. Begins in colonial Saint Domingue and follows the path of the fight against yellow fever.
  • $15.00

• Waugh, Alex    THE SUNLIT CARIBBEAN    Evans Brothers, London, 1953. 160 pages, with photographic illustrations in this guide to the West Indies. Section on Haiti. Hardbound in the original dustjacket, both in very good condition.
  • $8.00

• Waxman, Percy    THE BLACK NAPOLEON    Harcourt Brace, New York, 1931, stated first edition. Book is in very good condition, in the original dust jacket which is good condition with some tearing, nicks and pieces on the bottom and top of the spine and edges. Otherwise a very lovely copy of this 1931 book. One of the best books on Toussaint Louverture in English.
  • $70.00

• Weil, Thomas E. et al.,    AREA HANDBOOK FOR HAITI: A COUNTRY STUDY    Nearly 200 pages of analysis of many aspects of life in Haiti. Hardbound in very nice condition.
  • $18.00

• Williams, Sheldon.     VOODOO AND THE ART OF HAITI.     109 page paper back from the 1960s which has text on Haitian art, plus a large number of black and white reproductions and some color plates.
  • Like new. $30.00.

• Wilson, Edmund    RED. BLACK, BLOND AND OLIVE: STUDIES IN FOUR CIVILIZATIONS: ZUNI, HAITI, SOVIET RUSSIA, ISRAEL     W. H. Allen, London, 1956. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. VIII, 500 pages. Edmund Wilson here reports as observations on four varied civilisations. He considers the social and economic conditions, the religious practices and their influences on society, and the cultural life of the areas he visited. In this book he displays the journalist's eye for colourful detail. Book is hard bound in the original dust jacket and very fine condition.
  • Like new. $26.00.

• Wilson, Samuel M.    HISPANIOLA: CARIBBEAN CHIEFDOMS IN THE AGE OF COLUMBUS Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1990.    
  • $40.00

• Woodring, Wendell    STRATIGRAPHY, STRUCTURE, AND POSSIBLE OIL RESOURCES OF THE MIOCENE ROCKS OF THE CENTRAL PLAIN     Wash. DC, Republic of Haiti: Department of Public Works, 1922. 19 pages and a fascinating fold-out map relating to the article. Some light water stains on inside pages, doesn't obscure text at all.
  • $13.00

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